Everything Is Terrible Made Us Dizzy With Nostalgia, Joy, and Shame

This past Saturday, as we stood outside the Bill Cosford Cinema waiting for Everything Is Terrible's 2Everything 2Terrible: Tokyo Drift, we were extra curious to see who would turn up for this exercise in awkwardness. When we spied a few senior citizens in sweater sets, we wanted to throw trench coats over their heads and march them out of the danger zone. Then some college kids arrived, already giddy with madness, donning Clockwork Orange-style pig masks, and charging the door.

Both demographics entered the theater, but we assumed only the masked ones knew what was in store: a feature film mash-up of found VHS footage, coupled with an Eyes Wides Shut performance orgy that involved Yo Gabba Gabba clergy men, chanting, and a Jerry Maguire impersonator in Spanx. Intrigued? Read our Q&A with Everything Is Terrible (EIT) here.

First, they warmed up the crowd with videos found on their blog, beginning with an upbeat '80s rap video that turned out to be an ill-conceived PSA about contracting HIV. And just minutes in, we were confronted with what would turn out to be the night's most disturbing visual: a clip from a (possibly) German porn involving ET -- with ET looking more like a rotting corpse than a lovable extraterrestrial. Unspeakable deeds were done that we haven't been able to un-see.

A masked, cloaked character emerged onstage and announced that only way

to get this party started -- and we're paraphrasing here -- was to build

a shrine to Jerry Maguire. This is one of EIT's big obsessions:

Thrift stores are flooded with Jerry Maguire tapes as the year it came

out on VHS, America was switching to DVDs.

Soon after, Jerry Maguire himself jumped down off the stage, the skin on

his face melted like wax and striped with blood. He weaved amongst the

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